Panels

Seven panel discussions will be held, where experts will exchange views on current prevention topics. You can find details of the content and the people involved below. The audience will be involved in the discussions. The events will take place in room „Eilenriedehalle B“.

Tuesday, October 4, 2022Wednesday, October 5, 2022

Wednesday, October 5, 2022

  • New Approaches to the Prevention of Hate, Harassment and Threat
    09:00 - 10:30
    Moderation:
    Thomas Müller
    Landespräventionsrat Niedersachsen, Landesprogramm für Demokratie und Menschenrechte

    Hate, harassment and threats have increased significantly in the recent past, especially in the digital world. Politicians are responding with new federal regulations, among other things. In various scientific disciplines research projects have been and are being launched on the background as well as prevention perspectives. Civil society, particularly affected professional groups and organizations are increasingly addressing these problematic situations.

    With this panel, the German Prevention Congress would like to address the interdisciplinary discourse on the complex topics of hate, harassment and threat and formulate possibilities for suitable measures and strategies for prevention.

    Prof. Dr. Andreas Beelmann, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
    Prof. Dr. Andreas Beelmann is Professor of Intervention and Evaluation at the Institute of Psychology and Director of the Center for Research on Right-Wing Extremism, Democracy Education and Social Integration (KomRex) at Friedrich Schiller University Jena. He studied psychology, sociology, and health sciences and worked at the universities of Bielefeld, Erlangen-Nuremberg, and Cologne before assuming the above-mentioned professorship in 2004. His research focuses on the development and prevention of behavioral problems and delinquency in childhood and adolescence, the preparation of research balances, and development-oriented radicalisation prevention.
    Dr. Franz Rainer Enste, Commissioner against anti-Semitism of the state of Lower Saxony
    Franz Rainer Enste was born on December 30th 1953. He attended a classical humanistic high school and studied law and political science in Münster/ Westfalen. At first he was an administrative judge in Lüneburg, after that he was the head of he legal department of the city of Lüneburg and again judge at the administrative court in Stade. After becoming member of the state parliament of Lower Saxony he held various managerial positions in the state parliament administration and worked as a government spokesman for the Chancellery until his retirement. Since October 2019 he is the commissioner against anti-Semitism of the state of Lower Saxony.
    He has been a Rotarian in the RC Langenhagen-Wedemark since 2001, its president in 2009/2010 and the district 1800 governor in 2019/2020.
    Rüdiger José Hamm, National Committee on Religiously Motivated Extremism (BAG RelEx)
    Rüdiger José Hamm, political science graduate, Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin. Hamm has been active in political education work since 2003. His academic expertise and practical work areas include Critical Mixed Race Studies, Extremism, Diversity & Anti-bias Education, Anti-racism and Anti-Semitism. Hamm has been co-director of the National Committee on Religiously Motivated Extremism (BAG RelEx) since mid-2017.
    Jochen Kopelke, Police Trade Union
    Jochen Kopelke is the Federal Chairman of the German Police Union (GdP). The GdP organizes around 200,000 police employees, making it the largest police union in the world. Kopelke joined the police service and the GdP in 2005. After holding positions with the Bremen Police, the Bremen Riot Police and the Bremen State Criminal Investigation Office, he was a police leader on duty. From 2021 to 2022, the 38-year-old senior police officer worked as office manager and personal assistant at the Bremen Senator for the Interior. Kopelke chaired the GdP Bremen as state chairman from 2014 to 2017. He has been GdP national chairman since September 2022.
    Andre Niewöhner, Coordination group of the prevention network #sicherimDienst
    From June 2021 to February 2022, Polizeioberrat Andre Niewöhner headed the interdepartmental state project "More Protection and Safety for Employees in the Public Sector" of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia. After successful completion, the project was handed over to the prevention network #sicherimDienst. As head of the coordination group, Niewöhner is responsible for content orientation as well as coordination and planning. In the main office, he heads the Directorate for Emergency Response/Operations at the Coesfeld District Police Authority. In addition, he works part-time as a lecturer in the subjects of operational theory (NRW University for Police and Administration) as well as traffic science and management theory (German Police University).

  • What schools can learn for prevention today from the reappraisal of child sexual abuse
    11:00 - 12:30
    Moderation:
    Prof. Dr. Julia Gebrande
    Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse

    The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse will host this panel together with survivors of child sexual abuse in schools and other experts. Schools are a central starting point for child protection. Survivors of child sexual abuse have often told the Inquiry that teachers or other school members did not listen or protect them. The violence had a persisting impact on the lives of some victims and survivors. Others experienced school as a place for studying and appreciation. We can learn a lot from them. The Inquiry appreciates that more and more schools create prevention programs and try to be safe spaces for children and adolescents. But preventing child sexual abuse in an institution can only be successful if the institution is open to look into its past.

    Therefore, the Inquiry demands a right to an investigation for survivors, granted by law. This right and the obligation for institutions to investigate child sexual abuse have been conceptualized in the report „Rights and Obligations: How to Investigate into Past Failures to Protect Children from Sexual Abuse in Institutional Settings“. During this panel we want to discuss what schools can learn from investigating child sexual abuse for the current protection of children and adolescents.

    This panel is being organized in cooperation with the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in Germany.

    Prof. Dr. Barbara Kavemann, Independent Commission for Examining Child Sexual Abuse in Germany
    Barbara Kavemann is a German social scientist who focusses on following topics in her research: violence against children and adolescents, violence in relationships as well as prevention concepts against sexual child abuse.

    She graduated holding a PHD in 1995 at the Technical University of Berlin. Since 2004 Barbara Kavemann works as an associate wih the Sociological Research Institute for Gender Questions in Freiburg (SoFFi F).

    Additionally, Barbara Kavemann is a member of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in Germany since 2016.

    In June 2005 she was awarded with the Federal Cross of Merit for her efforts to improve the rights and protection of children and women who suffered from violence. She also received the „Berlin women´s price“ in 2005.

    Barbara Kavemann is active in several associations and committees, published several publications and contributed to research projects.
    Isabel Strey, Schattenriss e.V. Specialized Counseling Center against Sexualized Violence against Girls*
    Isabel Strey is a trauma pedagogue and trauma focused expert adviser. Since 2018 she has been working as a consultant at Schattenriss e.V., a specialized advice center against sexualized violence against girls*. Schattenriss also trains professionals and students as part of the Bremen expert days "School against sexual violence". Isabel Strey is also a multiplier for anti-racist and gender-sensitive youth education work. Isabel Strey studied social pedagogy and organizational pedagogy at the University of Hildesheim.
    Heike Völger, UBSKM
    Head of Unit Prevention, Research, National Council in office of the Independent Commissioner for Child Sexual Abuse Issues (UBSKM).
    Graduated educational sciences with many years of professional practice in (educational) work with children and young people and subsequent lateral entry into the federal administration (Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth). Since 2014 in the office of the UBSKM.

  • Now more than ever! Prevention in times of crises and disasters
    13:00 - 14:30
    Moderation:
    Prof. Dr. Eva Groß
    College in the Academy of Police Hamburg

    Crises have the potential to trigger e.g. violence, lead to social tensions, and depending on the subject of the crisis, are associated with numerous other social conflicts. Prevention strives to prevent problematic conditions, preferably, not to let them rise at all. In relation to the crisis, this means coming closer to a positive solution as well as avoiding a catastrophe or generating competencies to deal with crises more appropriately. Crises & Prevention will be the main topic of the upcoming German Prevention Congress 2023.

    The panel will provide an outline of this issue. It will ask the following questions:

    Is every crisis unique or what lessons can be learned for the future from how the Corona crisis has been handled so far?

    What does crisis resilience mean for society, individuals and communities?

    How can/must the population be involved and how can we ensure effective crisis communication?

    Dr. Donya Gilan, Leibniz Institute for Resilience Research (LIR) gGmbH
    Dr. Donya Gilan is a psychologist and head of the "Resilience & Society" department at the Leibniz Institute for Resilience Research (LIR) gGmbH in Mainz. She is concerned with the psychological adaptability of humans. Her research and work focuses on the development and implementation of programs to promote resilience, cross-cultural comparative emotion research, and the topic of acculturation.

    Another important focus is research transfer in which, in accordance with the motto theoria cum praxi, scientific findings are offered to the general public in the form of lectures, coaching sessions and workshops.
    This is because the neurobiological and human psychological findings obtained in clinical resilience research are not only used to better understand resilience mechanisms, but also to develop effective and evidence-based prevention programs based on them.

    In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, another research focus for her emerged, "Covid-19 and Resilience." She is studying psychological distress, resilience, risk and protective factors during the coronavirus pandemic. She is researching what interventions strengthen and sustain people's mental health and how to manage personal and global crises.
    Her collaboration on a study led to the conclusion that identifying protective and risk factors can be used to develop psychosocial interventions.

    At the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main in the department of "Differential Psychology & Diagnostics" she is working on emotion regulation during the acculturation process. At the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University Medical Center Mainz, she heads the Transcultural Outpatient Clinic. In 2014, she wrote a cultural psychological analysis at the Faculty of Psychology at Goethe University on the topic of change in display rules in the acculturation process and received her doctorate. She is a lecturer in the contact study "Migration & Society" at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and works as a consultant on the topic of "acculturation".
    Prof. Dr. Rita Haverkamp
    Dr. Markus Mayer, German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) GmbH
    Markus Mayer is heading the Competence Center Peace and Emergency Aid at GIZ, the German International Development Cooperation., responsible for providing technical and methodological support to GIZ programmes worldwide in the field of transitional aid, crisis prevention and peacebuilding, forced migration and disaster risk management. He has extensive work experience on the nexus between development and conflict in fragile and conflict affected settings, with extensive experience working for academic, non-governmental as well as state-owned organisations on those topics. He holds an PhD from Heidelberg University on the topic of youth conflict and development planning in Sri Lanka.